The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-11 00:00:00

HP WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M(olntn 6 25 minutes after 3 I Evening 39 minutes after 3 TAFFORD'S PATENT SAFETY COACHES CANNOT BE UPSET TNCONTESTIBLY :ESTABLISHED. A few days since the axle tree of one of these 'coaches broke in consequence of a flaw in the iron work ; the coach and performed its journey from Southampton, and had reached Stratton-street, Piccadilly, with twelve outside passengers, four in side, and a great weight of luggage, when the axle broke. An :imperceptible perpendicular descent of two or three inches was the only result, so entirely did the safety principle preserve the equili brium of the coach. It was the populace that called the attention 4:4 the coachman and passengers to the breakage ; no ene on the coach was conscious of the fact. Offices, 13, Nerthumberland-street, Charing-Cross ; and 25, St. Martin's-le-Grand, where the Patentee may be treated with for the use of his patent. OPINIONS OF THE LEADING PAPERS. " A Newspaper periodical of "We have not seen a first num- Imre than ordinary merit and at- ber that has performed so much as traction. "—Morning Chronicle. the Court Gazette.' "—Sun. Price only SIXPENCE—Not EIGHT-PENCE. THE COURT GAZETTE AND FASHIONABLE GUIDE of SATURDAY, contains among other Original Papers : The Autobiography of Syngleton Literature. Solus, Esq. The Drama. A Modern Traveller. Concerts.) The Dentist. New Music. The Debutantes. )Fine Arts, &c. Excursions from the West. Ample Scientific Reports. -Modern Belles. All the Foreign and Domestic Almacks. News of the Week. ' . 4. The ONLY Full and Authentic Description of the Ladies Dresses at the Queen's Drawing Room, will be found in the " Court Gazette," which is accompanied by a Gratis Supplement.--Price only 6d. Offices, 162, Piccadilly, and 22, Catherine-street, Strand. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Nlre like the spirit of " Nemo's" paper, but the plan is too visionary for a newspaper. His two main propositions on the last page but one, illustrated and proved, might be useful, but the long introduction is inadmissible. 0 ' Novus."—We cannot find room for a series of such specu lative articles as you propose. General dissertations on parties are not very acceptable at any time, and at present would only be misplaced in our columns. The communications of both our Correspondents are left in the office for them. Tke publication of Tin SUN NNWSPAPER commenced this day at 15 minutes past Three o' Clock. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1838. Sergeant TALFOURD'S Copyright Bill seems to have oc casioned: some stir among the trades dependent on lite rature. The Booksellers, Printers, and Bookbinders, are up in arms against it, holding meetings, and getting up pe titions to Parliament, with a view to defeat it. The News paper Press is also beginning to move, and is taking dif ferent sides in the question. We do not mean to stand neuter, neither is it our intention to follow the example of some of our Contemporaries, who have rushed into the contest with the unreasoning vehemence of heated parti sans. We think the opponents of the Bill are wrong, but we are open to conviction, and in discussing the subject shall employ no language but that of respect for those who differ from us. The object of the Bill, it is admitted on all hands, is to give greater security to literary property, by extending copyright sixty years beyond the term for which the law, as it stands at present, allows it to be held. This may be called the principle of the measure. It is urged by Sergeant TALFOURD, and the promoters of the Bill, that this extension is no more than authors are entitled to, to enable them to reap the full benefit of their labours ; while by the petitioners it is characterised as unjust in itself, injurious to their parti cular interests, and highly detrimental to those of the public. Now, as all other property is protected from in vasion, and so secured to the owner by law that no one can deprive him of it, and that he can transmit it to those who come after him with a like right of inviolability attached to it, the onus lies uron the objectors in this case to show that literary property is dif ferent from all other kinds of property—that there is some thing in its nature which takes it out of the class of things that properly belong to a man, and therefore out of the protection of law—that books in short are, as it were, Jena nohow, or became so after a certain period of domestication, and therefore belong. to nobody, or anybody. This, we say, it is incumbent on the opponents of Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD'S Bill, to prove before they are entitled to step in and say to the Legislature " do not grant the protection deman led." But this is what they have not done, nor, as far as we are aware, have even attempted to do. Is the work of the brain less worthy or less entitled to protection than the work of the hands ? Is not the produce of the intellect as much a man's own as anything can possibly be ? Nay, is it not more so than any of those things which the law has fenced round with so many safeguards ? Take, for ex ample, the case of a manufacturer, a tradesman, or any other person engaged in the ordinary pursuits of active life, in which wealth is acquired. Such a person by industry and perseverance, realizes a fortune ; but how ever industrious or persevering he may be, he can do no thing without the assistance of others. He employs the hands of multitudes whose labours contribute to the successful result. But the author is indebted to no extraneous aid for the work which lie produces. He builds with no man's sinews— spins with no man's fingers. What he executes is exe cuted by himself alone—by the dedication of his time, and of those mental endowments which he has laboriously, and often expensively cultivated, to objects from which he expects a reward for his toil. If any man, therefore, has a right to say emphatically " this is mine," it is• the author of a book. Why, then, should he be debarred from that protection in the enjoyment of this right whi h is given to all other men ? Let the opponents of the pro posed measure answer this question. We shall return to this subject soon, and shall then consider the objections which have been made to the details of the Bill. In another part of The Sun will be found a few fine ex amples of the oppression to which the Church -rate, or, more properly speaking, the conscience-tax, gives rise. In one case in the town of Dudley, property to the amount of 41. 10s. was carried off for a rate of 2s. Id. ! In another case, at Barnsley, the goodi of a member of the Society of Friends were seized under circumstances, which, to say nothing of the brutality of the Church authorities, render the seizure illegal. We trust the law will be resorted to for redress. The sufferer in this instance has some comfort before him in the issue of the Hillsby affair, communicated by " A Constant Reader," in which the ecclesiastical swag gerer was compelled to eat humble pie, thanking the Dis senting Minister, whom he had wronged, for his forbear ance in letting him off on paying the costs of the suit and giving 101. to the poor. The Standard of last night does not deny that the fabri cation of Mr. O'CONNELL'S evidence, as we said the day before yesterday, originated in its own columns. It stands convicted, therefore, of having, by false evi dence, wilfully endeavoured to take away Mr. O'CON NELL'S character. Its own practices now convince us that it has accused the Catholics of perjury so repeatedly and so recklessly, from considering that as a very light offence. There wants nothing but a mere form of words to make the false testimony so frequently borne by our Contempo rary against Mr. O ' CONNELL, and against the Catholics generally, amount to the very crime with which the Stan dard falsely accuses the Catholic legislators. The malignity of its motives is plain. They may at least fancy that they are promoting the public welfare ; but even the Standard, fond as it is of reasoning itself into wrong, cannot falla ciously assume that to stir up sectarian animosities and fill the hearts of its fellow-subjects with blind and bigotted re ligious hatred, is for the good of the community. These vile calumnies proceeding from religious malignity recommend it to kindred minds, and the charity, intelli gence, and patriotism of the Tory gentry and clergy of England may be measured by the readiness with which they believe stupid fabrications, and the encouragement 'lcy give to those who keep alive in the land animo `Ts and heart-burnings. The deceiver and the deceived worthy of each other. They pretend to treat the s with sovereign contempt, and look down on every !paper writer as beneath their notice, and for this they )roperly punished by being duped by its lies. Oh ! it is to us a pleasant spectacle to see the renowned Peers and Prelates, and the so-called Ministers of Peace,who have been labouring zealously year after year, in Parliament and at public meetings, to keep alive sectarian animosity, and to deprive their fellow subjects of their liberties and rights, who do not happen to agree with them as to the precise in terpretation to be put upon some verse of some chapter of a book, the original language of which neither of them understand—it is, we say, a pleasant spectacle, to see the whole tribe of ultra-Protestant Pharisees, headed by the Bishop of EXETER and the Earl of WINCHILSEA, flounder ing before the public with the hook of the fabricating Standard in their nostrils. 'e will not repeat Mr. POULTER'S assertion that the Shaftesbury Committee was the most corrupt that ever disgraced the administration of justice ; but we can assert that it performed things which no other Com mittee ever performed. For example, there was such great treating in the borough that the Committee made a special report concerning it ; that treat ing was all on the side of the Tories ; the publicans who supplied the materials were liberally paid ; and the checks which paid them were traced to the banker of the petitioning candidate, who is now the sitting Member. For the Committee under such circum stances not to have declared the election void is unexampled. Had any Liberal Committee come to such an unusual deci sion, we may imagine the terrible uproar the Tory journals would have made on the subject, by what they have said on the pains-taking Roxburgh Committee. It has, how ever, we believe, ever been the case that the greatest rogues have always been the loudest in publicly denouncing roguery. By the arrival at Liverpool on Monday night of the packet ship Orpheus, we have received New York Papers to the 20th ult.—the date of the last arrivals from the United States. They bring a mass of interesting, but anticipated news, from the Canadas. The Montreal Gazette of the Bth contains a despatch from Colonel TOWNSHEND to the Hon. Colonel MAITLAND, dated Amhertsburg, Feb. 23, giving an account of the precipitate flight of the rebels from Fighting Island—their last head quarters on the Canadian frontier. The Gallant Colonel's account of the retreat of the rebels, who fled helter-skelter the moment they saw the red-coats venture upon the ice, is very graphic : " The flight of the rebels was most precipitate, leaving behind them one gun, which was only discharged once, various arms, rifles, muskets, pistols, swords, and provisions of every kind, together with powder, shot, and other munitions. I beg to observe of the muskets, that they were of the United States army, and perfectly new, not having been fired, and apparently just taken out of the boxes which were found in their camp. Of the provisions too I must add, that they were in many cases of a quality different to what would be furnished for the use of troops, consisting of crackers in barrels, boxes of smoked her rings, &c., and such as would have been contributed by a sympathizing public rather than by a commissariat." The Hon. Colonel MAITLAND, in a dispatch of the same date, to Colonel FOSTER, complains that the run away heroes from Fighting Island were permitted to form on the American shore, and fire upon the QUEEN'S troops. He further states that the bulk of them were American citizens, armed with muskets, marked with the stamp of the Federal Government. " Whatever," says this officer, " may be the professed desire to preserve the neutrality between Great Britain and the United States, or the orders given for enforcing it, my opinion is, that the conduct of the authorities in this instance partakes more of connivance at the outrages daily practised under their own eyes, than of the smallest effort to prevent those occurrences so much to be complained of." Such language from an officer who is himself an eye-witness of the conduct which he censures is likely to make a very deep and very painful impression upon the public mind. In fairness to those distinguished functionaries of the United States, who have exerted them selves in a spirit of good faith and good feeling to preserve the neutrality of the Federal Government, charges of a sweeepingly general kind ought to be carefully avoided on the part of British subjects. They must from their very nature be in nine cases out of ten erroneous ; they affect not those obnox!ousto the censure implied in them ; and they are sure to be resented as wrongs by the brave, the generous, and the enlightened of every country. We arc perhaps making more of these dispatches than they really deserve. The parts of them that will be longest remembered are those describing the flight of the rebels, leaving behind them in their hurry—not their arms, for these they did not want, being too nervous to endure the smell of burnt gunpowder—but the crackers and smoked herrings. But the most remarkable document communicated to us from the Canadas is the farewell address of that most sapient of Governors, Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD, to the Legislature of the Upper Province, delivered viva voce from the Throne on the 6th ult., in the form of a Speech, for the prorogation of that body. It is well for us that the American Executive rightly understand the character of the ex-Governor, and the minimum degree of influence which he possesses with the British Cabinet ; otherwise, he would be sure to provoke a war, by his repeated blunders, between England and the United States. But whatever political character Sir FRANCIS B. HEAD may have had, he is now known in both hemispheres as " a dreamer of dreams"—as a bubbleist, whose judgment is controuled by his fancy. We cannot find room for this address, which, in the main, heirs as much relation to the question of the prorogation of the provincial Legislature as do the adventures cf Sinbad the Sailor ; but we must, in justice to ourselves, make an ex tract or two from it, to show the spirit in which it is con ceived. The following occurs in the first paragraph : " It is much to be lamented that at a moment when thn disturbed state of Lower Canada, and the depression of com merce occasioned by it, must tend materially to diminish our revenue, the necessity for new charges should be created to an inconvenient extent, by the unexpected hostility of our allies, which has forced us, for a continued length of time, into a state of actual warfare along the whole extent of our frontier." Such language as this might pass well in the columns of a newspaper ; but the merest tyro in the science of Govern ment must see the madness of its employment by the Re presentative of a Sovereign in speaking of a people with whom we are not disposed to go to war. Besides it is most unwarrantable to denominate a band of ruffians de nounced as robbers by the Government of the United States as " our allies," unless it is intended to charge the Federal Government with being privy to their violations of our territory. In the name of the Government and people of England we protest against such expressions as ground less in their insinuations, and as calculated to disturb the friendly relations between Great Britain and the United States. The following passage is still more remarkable : " It has been very strongly argued, even in England, that De mocracy was the only form of Government indigenous to the soil of America, and that Monarchy was a power which re quired here artificial support. " With a few to subvert this theory the whole of the Queen's troops were allowed to retire fron the province, and the result, as had been anticipated, was that the people of Upper Canada were no sooner left uncontrolled than the proclaimed themselves in f avour o f M onarc hi cal institutions. Surrounded by temptations on almost every side, they indignantly rejected them all ; in a few hours they successfully put down insur rection in their own land, an d when - American citizens, astonished and disappointed at their loyalty, determined to force them to become Republicans, people of all religions and of all politics rushed to the frontier, to die in defence of their glorious Constitution." We have here the cream of the ex-Governor's policy. To subvert the ROEBUCKIAN theory in Parliament, the gallant author of the " Bubbles" perilled the lives of thou sands of her MAJESTY'S peaceable and contented subjects —permitted treason to rear its standard at the very gates of Toronto—and all but involved England in a long and bloody war with the greatest republic in the world. What a price to pay for the subversion of a theory which com manded some four votes in the House of Commons !—a theory which Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD was not called upon to trouble his brains about. His duty was to have maintained peace, not to provoke insurrection, under any pretext, or for any purpose whatever. The next extract is the last which we shall inflict upon the patience of our readers. Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD went out to Canada a" Whig, and something more," and he returns a Tory. It is true we have his own disclaimer of such a charge, with a declaration that he belongs to no party ; and it is possible, mot cover, that in appearing in the ranks of any party, he would be rather tolerated than trusted. But the following looks very like a renunciation of liberal principles : " The people of England will, I trust, not fail to admire the calmness, the resolution, the generosity, and the honourable subjection to their laws which have distinguished the inhabi tants of Upper Canada; and, on the other hand, they certainly cannot fail to observe that the Republican project of our English Reformers, namely, to make the people bit by bit re- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1838 sponsible only to themselves, has ended in America by the Go vernment of the United States confessing its total inability to restrain the passions of its citizens, to guard its State arsenals, or to maintain its treaties with its oldest and most natural ally. " With this experience before our eyes, I must confess I join with the Legislature and people of Upper Canada in shuddering at the abused name of Reform,' just as we now recoil with abhorrence when we hear suddenly pronounced the word:' sympathy.' "As my successor is hourly expected here, I return to the mother country as I left it, totally unconnected with party or with politics; but in retirement I shall remember some of the lessons which the people of Upper Canada have taught me ; and I feel it my duty to declare that I leave the continent of America with my judgment perfectly convinced that the inhabi tants of Europe, Asia, and Africa are right in their opinion, that all men are not by nature equal, that the assertion of the contrary in America is a fallacy, and that talent, industry, and character, must elevate individuals, as they do nations, in the graduated scale of society." We have now done with Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD, and we are, in truth, not sorry for it. We believe after his exploits in Canada no Government will ever again dream of trusting him with the protection of the lives and fortunes of any portion of her MAJESTY'S subjects. We charge him with no crime but what in a Governor is the greatest of all offences—want of capacity. In his private relations he is an estimable, worthy per son ; but he is as unconscious of all knowledge of the principles of practical Government as the most juvenile member of his household. As to his gratuitous opinions about the non-equality of mankind, all we shall say is, that Europe, Africa, and Asia must feel excessively flattered by the compliment Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD so very hand somely pays them in condescending to corroborate their testimony upon a point of such vital importance to their common welfare. The affair of the steamer " Caroline" has been made the subject of some unimportant communications between the English Ambassador at Washington and the Federal Go vernment. No adjustment of the question has yet taken place. We have received a copy of the Barbadian and St.Luei., Gazette of the 7th of Februray ; the former of which contains a correspondence between the Governor, Colonel BUNBURY, and the Chief-Justice of the Island, upon which we shall to-morrow make a few observations. The subject is an important one to the colonists generally. The Paris Journals of Monday have all been received, but their contents are uninteresting. It was reported that Marshal MOLITOR was named as Ambassador to the Court of Spain. It was likewise rumoured that M. AGUADO had sent a courier to Madrid to apprise Count WALLA and his colleagues that he declined the acceptance of the New Loan ; but we have not been able to ascertain if this rumour be e,)rrect. The following are extracts from the Journals : The Journal of Smyrna of the 17th March announces the death of M. Fanvel, formerly French Consul, on the 12th of that month, at the age of 85 years. The interment took place on the following day, with the pomp due to his rank. During 40 years' residence in Greece he had devoted great at tention to the remains of the monuments of that country, and had collected a great mass of materials on the subject ; unfor tunately he has never published any thing. He often confided to travellers notes of which he had no copies, and this added to the loss of some MSS., during the troubles in Greece, have rendered it impossible for him to publish the results of his long and laborious researches. He had a collection of medals arid plaster casts of Greek antiquities, of which he personally took moulds himself. He had intended, towards the end Of his life, to sell them, for his inexhaustible liberality did not allow him to acquire any fortune. The collection will doubtless be:placed at the disposal of the Government—Journal des Debats. FIIENCH FUNDS.— PARIS, APRIL 9. Five per Cents.. 1081 30c. 35c. 40c. Four per Cents., 101 f. 25e. Three per Cents., 80f. 70c. 75c. 80c. Bank Actions, 2,700 f. itente (le Naples, 99f. 80c. 8.5 c. 90c. Roman Five per Cents., 102 3 !,103. Spanish Actives, 214 21. Spanish Passives, 5 4% Belgian Loan, Five per cents, 101% 102. Belgian Bank, 1,450 f. 1,447 f. 50c. Haytian Loan, 400 f. HXCHANOR ON LONDON. One month, paper, '2sf. 57%e.; money, 25f. 55,. Three munths, paper, 25f. ; money, 251. 40c. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. MK 55c. Three per Cents., SA'. 95c. Bank Actions, 2,7C0f. Romans, 10:3. Belgian Loan, 102. Belgian Bank, 1,450 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 23'4. Haytlan Loan, 4901. Spanish Actives, 2 I . Spanish Passives, 4%. MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 10.—Wind S. W. moderate.—Arrived and proceeded for the River, the Perseverance from Liima ; Margaret, Mitchinson, from Berbice ; Perfect, Luck, from India; Monarch, Brown, from St. Lucia. Came down from the River, the Eleuthera, Wheatley, for Quebec and sailed:, her Majesty's ship Hastings, tewed in by a steam vessel and remains. PORTSMSUTH, APRIL 10.—Wind S.S.E. to W. fine.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Madagascar, from the West Indies. Sailed the Wel lington, Chadwick, for New York her Majesty's ship Inconstant, for Halifax ; Tiger, Morgan, for Quebec; her Majesty's ships Orestes, Bellerophon, and Madagascar, have come into Harbour from Spithead. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind S.S.W. Sailed the Mischief (yacht) for Mediterranean; her Majesty's ship Malabar for Cork and Quebec. FALMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind S. light breezes and fine. Arrived the Liverpool (steamer), Lewis, from Gibraltar, left on the 29th of March, Cadiz on the 30th, Lisbon the 3d of April, and Oporto and Vigo on the sth. Arrived off Port the Greston, Guthrie, from Gonalres. Sailed the Alchymist, Wells, for Quebec; Iberia (steamer) for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon,lCadiz, and Gibraltar. Speakings—the Tagus (steamer) from Falmouth on the 21st March, Cape Espiehel, N. by E. distant 60 miles, by the Liverpool (steamer). LIVERPOOL, APRIL 10.—Wind W.S.W., light.—Arrived, the Or pheus, Bailey, from New York, sailed on the 19th of March, on the 7th inst. off Cork, spoke the South American, from Liverpool to New York, and Mersey, from Liverpool to New Orleans; the Phcenix, Heartley, from Calcutta; the Memnon, Every, from ditto; the Dryope, Hamil ton, from Pernambuco ; the Glorat, Thorns, from Ceara; the:Lady Campbell, from Demerara; the New England, Davis, from Mobile; the Eliza Ann, Burgess, from ditto ; the American, from ditto ; the Hebrus, Carr, from New Orleans ; the Charles, Baker, from ditto; the Statira, Montgomery, from ditto ; the Edwin, Wilson, from ditto ; the Citizen, Thorpe, from ditto ; the John Gogster, from ditto; the Cretde, Stacey, from ditto; the Sterling, Statson, from Savannah; the Ruby, Westcote, from ditto ; the Consbrook, Rollock, from Charleston ; the York, Meyer, from ditto ; the Mandane, from Alexandria; the Queen of the South, from Lisbon. Sailed, the Lady Rowena, Pace, for Charleston ; the Howard, for Savannah ; the Robert Slane, Mills, for ditto ; the Ata lanta, for ditto; the Hudson, Hamilton, for Arcca ; the Star of the West, for Odessa; the Le Fortune, Duer, for Stettin. CREEK, APRIL 10.—Arrived, the Elizabeth, Edwards, from Smyrna. HULL, APRIL 10.—Arrived, the Sea-horse (steamer), Rotterdam. WEYMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Arrived ofF, the Briton's Queen, Newton, from St. Michael's. There are this week only moderate supplies of English Grain and Flour, but a large quantity of Irish Oats. Wheat continues at Monday's prices, with a dull sale for but very firm parcels. Barley, Beans, and Pease remain as last reported. There has been little done in Oats to-day, but the factors are firm in their efforts to obtain Monday's prices. The sale of Flour this week is very dull. There will be no market held here on Friday. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oars. Four 1,190 qrs. 910 qrs. I 2,610 qrs. 1,500 %ark, 15,6'.0 HASTINGS, APRIL 10.—Arrived off port, the xrethusa, Beard, from Jamaica; Solo, Hast, from Porto Cabello; Trident, Smith, from St. Thomas. Engp.sh Ir. sh . Foreign CLYDE, APRIL B. Arrived the Rosalind, Watts, and Jean Hastie, Robertson, from Demerara ; Agnes and Ann, Roebuck, from New Orleans; Ann, Mitchell, from Oporto; David, Summers, from Charente. Coca, APRIL B.—Arrived the Simeon, Hardy, from Barbadoes ; James, Murphy, from St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port—Pilot, Moore, from Laguna. The Enterprize, Macready, from Liverpool to St. John's, New Bruns wick, was wrecked in Penobscot Bay on the 6th ult. The Belsay Castle, Robson, from London, was wrecked at the en. trance of the Zees Ginst, master and six of the crew drowned. The Acadia, James, from Liverpool, put into Fayal leaky; 300 tons of the cargo thrown over, and must discharge, bound to New York. The Latona, Mann, of London, being in a sinking state, was run on shore on the island of Flores, 24th December. Part of cargo saved. Young, Glasgow (sloop), foundered off Morant Point (Jamaica), pre •idus to 15 Feb. Crew saved. The Aurora, Black, from Havanna, put into Lisbon, dismasted, &c. bound to Amsterdam. The Hyperion, Wood, from Amsterdam to Baltimore, was wrecked on Onegada, 16th Feb. Crew saved. The following letter has been received at Lloyd's, dated Trieste ; March 31, 1838: " Sir—l beg leave to transmit you the information copied at foot, which I have this day received from her Majesty's Consul-General, Sir Thomas Sorel], and remain, respectfully, '• G. MOORE, Agent. " With a view of making more generally known to merchants and shipowners interested in the trade at the Austrian porta on the Adriatic, a regulation which has a tendency to mitigate the effects of the sanitory laws in force in these States, I beg to acquaint you that vessels bound to Trieste, Venice, and Fiume, coming from, or having touched at any place which subjects them to quarantine in an Austrian port, will, by taking on board on their way up the Adriatic a health guardian from the lazaretto at Ragusa, have their quarantine, after arriving at the port of their destination, shortened by the number of days such health officer may have been in the vessel; or, in other words, the term of their quarantine will be calculated from the time he may have come on board. This privilege does not, however, extend to vessels bringing susceptible goods, which by the established regulations are to be landed, and undergo a purification in the warehouses of a lazaretto. It may be altogether useless to add, that vessels touching at Gibraltar, on their way to an Austrian port, are thereby subjected to a quarantine of obser vation of seven days. " To NV. Dobson, Esq., Sie., Lloyd's, London." NEWG ATE AND LEADENHALL. Meat was in large supply; but owing to the warm day, the market was dull. A large quantity remained unsold, prices of all kinds are lower. Beef, 2s. 4d, to 3s. 4d. ; Mutton, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. ; Veal, 3s. liid, to 4s. Bd. ; Pork, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Irish, 35. 4d. to 35. 6d. The Poultry market was well supplied. Trade was flat . and prices lower. Fowls, 3s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. ; Goslings, 6s. to Ss. 6d. ; Duckling;, 45.6 d. to ss. 6d. ; Chickens, 2s. to 45,; Guinea Fowls, 3s. to 3s. 6d.; Pea Hens, Bs. to 9s. 6d. ; Wild Ducks, Is. to 2s. ; Eggs, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per 120. FISH MARKET. Te-day there was again a very abundant supply. Salt Fish plentiful and cheap, being on an average from :Id. to 3d. per lb. ; Turbot 4s. to 13s. ; Soles 6d. to 3s. per pair ; Cod nearly out of season ; Whiting 4d. to 6d. ; Haddock 6d. to Is. and Is. 4d. each; Christchurch Salmon 4s. per lb., other kinds is. .1, 41 n. . , Z, aaa. r.►~~ : ac az,9 L, L a a SEED MARKET. The briskness that there was in red and white Clover Seed has some. what subsided. Prices remain much the same as on Monday. In other descriptions of Seed nothing occurred worth notice. SPIRIT MARKET. Jamaica Rum is very limited in transactions, but in Leewards there is more doing. Proofs 3s. Id., 3to 6 overproof 35. od. to 3s. 3d., 7 to 11 overproof 35. 4d. to 3s. 5d., 35 ovcrproof 4s. 4d. The stock of Rum is 7,371 puns. and 1,061 hhds. Brandy is not active; Bourdeaux 4s. 4d. to 2s. 6d. ; Cognac 7d. to 4s. 6d. English, Scotch, and Irish Spirits Os. Bd. per gallon. Geneva is firm at Is. I Id. to :Is. TALLOW MARKET. This market continues in a most inactive state; indeed, the season is now against it. The price of P.Y.C. is 51s. on the spot, and for de. livery 455. 6d. It is expected that there will be vast sums of money lost, owing to the great decline which has taken place. METAL MARKET. Both for export and consumption, the market is dull for Iron, Lead, Copper, and Tin. The stocks, generally speaking, are to a fair extent. Prices are unvaried, but Spelter has advanced to 16/. 155., and 17/. on the spot. For delivery, several parcels have been sold at 161. 103. _ . TEA SALE.—(THIS DAY.) The sale continues to be well attended, but there is no improvement evinced whatever, and it may be said to he a confirmed heavy sale. Small parcels of all kinds sell, but prices continue drooping. The exact decline cannot be ascertained until the sale has concluded. COLONIAL MARKETS. Owing to arrivals from the West Indies of produce, and to intelli gence that the condition of the crops is very promising, a dulness has come over Sugar, the only article in this market in which there was any life and firmness. Now all is languid, and there appears to be eon. siderable uncertainty in prices. The demand for Mauritius is checked, and Bengal is declined 6d. per cwt. That so com paratively trifling a circumstance as that now quoted should have depressed the market, shows the great weakness of the market. B. P. Sugar is flat, but not lower. Lowest price 565. ; middling 595. ; fine 635. The stock is now 6640 hhds. and trs., which exceeds that of last year at this time by 1209. Refined Sugar is firm but dull at 355. 6d. for fine crushed. There is no market now for Coffee. The stock of British Plantation is 1225 casks, and 1013 barrels and bags ; Ceylon 1216 bags; Mocha 391:," bales ; Brazil 37979 bags ; To-day we have no public sales worth notice. A parcel of damaged Havannah Sugar is the principal, and it is no criterion. Nothing doing in Rice, Spices, Cocoa, Indigo, or Cotton, Rum is quiet but lower. The Imports are light, and for tomorrow the only sale worth notice is one of 7,500 bags of Mauritius Sugar. CORN MARKETS. Barley. I Oats. i Beans. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. Accounts from Rio Grande state that the rebels had forced the slaves to take up arms, and their force altogether amounted to 3,000 men ; the Imperial force, without including the garrison of the city of Porto Aleggio, amounts to 5,150 men. The most important arrivals this morning, are the American papers to the 20th ult., from New York, which bring favourable and important accounts from Canada. It is confidently stated this morning, and credited, that an answer to the proposals made on the 14th of March last, by the King of Holland, was given yesterday alone, by Lord Palmerston, owing to the Five Powers not having been able to agree on a joint answer, although they were unanimous in rejecting the King of Holland's proposal of the 24 articles. FUNDS. Yesterday, was settling day in Consols, and to day is the paying of the differences, in which the Brokers and Jobbers are chiefly occupied. Consols, which closed yesterday at 931- for the Account, opened this morning at 93A buyers, both for money and time. Exchequer Bills, 67 preen. ; India Bonds, 72 ; Bank Stock, 2.06), ex div. In the Foreign Market, owing to the report at Paris that M. Aguado had dispatched a courier to Madrid, withdrawing his proposallfor the Spanish loan, which caused the Spanish Active at Paris to recede about 1 per cent., Spanish, which left off yesterday at 20 to 21, opened at 204 to 201 ; Portuguese, 301- 31 ; Three per Cents., 201- 21 ; Brazilian, 76k; Colombian, 2.81- ; Mexican, 271 284 ; Dutch Two.and-a-Half per Cents., 54 to 544. The accounts by the Lisbon mail state that all was tranquil there. The Constitution was to be sworn to on the 4th of April. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock . . 20,1 5% India Stock — 3 per Cent. .ted. 92%%% Ditto Bends 3 per Cant. Cons. 9334%%% South Sea Stock 3 % per Cent.... ... .. ............ Old Annnities .... ..... ...... Ditto Red. 100 % 14 New Ditto New 3% per Cent .. 101 Y 4% 13 per Cent. Annuities, 1751_ New 5 per Cent.. Bank LoagArinuitiestoexpire Ditto 500 66 69 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 l5 j Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1 8511 —j Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. 5, 1860 l5 3-16 1 4. Ditto Adverti5ed............ —pm Jan. 5, 1,484. — Bank kook for Account._ ..... April a, le& — India Stock for Account 2.684 Jan. 1, ta70,,,„., ......... _. Consols for Account 933% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austria!, Bonds Belgian Bonds 10334 Ditto Account — 1...;itt0 Account . Portugueseßonds.... ..... ... ...... Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds 3 . 1%14 B icnos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account . hillian Bonds ...... ....... ...... Pruisian Bonds Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 18" 0 Columbia:, Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account ... .......... ..... Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1824 28% i Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account ........ ......... 28% 1 Ditto Account — ihniiti Bonds ....,...... ....... 743 Ditto 80ud5,1824 2031 % Ditto Account ..... Greek Bonds ...... ... ..... .......... French, 5 per cent. .... .....1071. 75 Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ----- 4 per cent........... —f. —c. Ditto Account ... ........ Mexican Bonas, 5 per cent.... Exchange 2sf. 50 .. Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent lOO% Neapolitan — Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company 12% 12%. United Mexican (issued at' /. pin.) Ditto New Scrip Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company ...... Great Western Railr Comr - tpann, .'veal Tway • _ hrighton Railway company: London and Croydon Railway Comp. Ditto Scrip "anchestor and Leods Railway Com York and North Midland Railway Cc Asphalte, Claridge's Patent London Parcels delivery Company COURSE OF EXCHi Amsterdam C.F. 12 6 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Antwerp... Hamburg. ....... ........ M.B l3 14 Altona Paris, 3 days' sigh 25 65 Ditto 3 Ms. 25 95 Marseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 154% Petersbutgh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Berlin Vienna, effective II 2 M. 10 14 Trieste ditto lO 16 Madrid 35 1% 94 17 8 any ,patny orzipany l2 2 ..... ....... A NGE3YESTERDAY. Gibraltar 43 Leghorn 32 Genoa 26 15 Milan 31 Venice 46 Naples 39 Palermo per oz. 115 Lisbon 54 Oporto 53 Rio Janeiro 2B Bahia 25 Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 Cadiz.... 34 Barcelona Seville 34 12 3 ,4 16 17 03,4 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver, bars. standard 0 4 11 HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. We hear respecting the Ambassadors of the Powers who would not agree to join Lord Palmerston in his answer to the King of Holland, that it was owing to their wishing to have further instructions from their different Courts on the subject. The Batavier has not as yet arrived. Since the early part of the morning an improvement has taken place in the British Market. Consols, which wore Daft, are at present Daft This may be attributed to there being bears in the above Stock. Exche quer Bills, 66 69 ; India Bonds, 73 ; Bank Stock, 2051- ex div. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather improved, may be quoted at 20%, with Coupons ; Portuguese, 301- I ; Three per Cents. ,201 A ; Danish, 74} ; Russian, 1111 ; Columbian, 28i ; Dutch Two and-a-Half, 54} I. In the Shares some business doing, without an improvement in the Rail Shares, but Asphalte is rather better, done at 15 prem. ; British Iron, 341 discount. Consols for Account, 93i THREE 0' CLOCK FEROCITY OF RAVENS.—A few days ago some ravens made an attack on the sheep of Mr. Watson, of Long thwaite Green, in Brackenthwaite, and actually pecked out the eyes of five sheep, whilst Mr. Watson and his men were in sight, and notwithstanding their utmost exertions to put these formidable opponents to flight.—Manchester Guardian. MUNINIERY.—We are informed by the Lincoln Gazette, that on Sunday last (Palm Sunday), the ancient, but assuredly extremely ridiculous, as well as most indecent, custom of the whip-gad cracking was gone through, as usual, the first lesson three loud cracks near the church door, in the second lesson, the gad is held over the parson's head during the time he is reading it. The Somerset County Gazette says that at the Assize Ball last week but few persons were present. This fact is gratifying, since it seems to afford some evidence of im provement. There is without doubt an incompatibility, not to say an indecency, in dancing and revelry at a time when not merely the fortune and reputation of so many are at stake, but the lives as well as property of our fellow men are in peril. STONEHAVEN.—We are sorry to say that small pox, in a good many instances, have proved fatal of late here. IRISH TASTE.—Although his Lordship (says an Irish Journalist) is not himself very savoury, he is a subject that will keep. COUNTRY W heat. Pease. S. S. .... -- Per Quarter. 8. to s. s. to s. a. to a. s. to s. Boston 4B 56 22 28 15 10 29 39 Gainsborough — 5 3 25 20 42 Grantham 5O 55 28 33 24 28 38 46 GrimsbY Horncastle 42 Lincoln.-- 35 8 21 32 14 25 40 44 Spalding _.60 Stamford 4B 56 28 33 21 25 38 4 4 56 26 34 24 York 5O 26 32 44 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, APRIL 10. The arrivals of Wheat and other Grain, since Saturday last, are to a fair extent, and with Oatmeal and Flour we are also tolerably well supplied. This day's Market was fairly attended by dealers and millers from the interior. Wheat, however, was in very poor requ es t , and only a small retail business was transacted in this article, though a reduction of Id. to 2d. per 70 lbs. was submitted to. Flour was likewise in bare de. mand, and 6d. to Is. per sack lower. Oats, on the contrary, were firm and fully maintained our la st quotation, but Oatmeal was extremely difficult to part with, and 3d. per 240 lbs. lower than last Friday's cur rency was accepted for the small sales effected this day. 30 32 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. —APRIL 10. The was y dull, arrivavlesrofCo andfew le ttonth is day are were evree effected ylarge— 30,000 b ags. T h e market -in any descriptions, the total transactions barely amounting to '2,000 bag s :-30 Maran ham, 84d., • 500 Surat, 3Ld. 41d. ; 30 Pernam, 91d. ; 1,440 Ame rican, sid. Std.—Total, :2,000. The electors of East Cumberland will be proud to see the position which their representative, Mr, James, has taken upon this (the Slavery) question. He is a large pro prietor in the West Indies ; and, with that straightforward ness which has ever characterised his conduct, he has declared that the slaves are fit for freedom, and ought to be free imme diately. This honest and fearless declaration has won him golden opinions amongst his constituents,—. Carlisle Journal. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) KINSALE. The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock. The investigation into the vote of Harris Fudger was re sumed, and after Counsel had been heard, the Committee decided upon retaining the vote. HULL. The Committee met this morning at ten o'clock, when the vote of Robert Gibson was again proceeded with. The whole morning was occupied in the examination of Mr. Quin, and objections taken to his answering the questions put to him, on the ground that they might tend to criminate himself. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Lords present were, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of London derry, and Lord Dinorbcn. HART V. FRAME. Sir Wm. FOLLETT concluded his reply in this case to-day, the facts of which we stated shortly when the case was last before their Lordships. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he would give judgment on the 30th of the present month. EWING V. INGLIS. The arguments in this appeal were resumed, but had not concluded when our reporter left. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. FORGERY.— Thomas Iverson, a gentlemanly-looking youth, of the age of 18, was indicted for forging and uttering a forged check, well knowing the same to have been forged, with intent to defraud Sir R. Carr Glynn and Co., bankers. Mr. Doane prosecuted, Mr. C. Phillips defended. Mr. DOANE, in stating the case to the Jury, remarked, that it was very painful to see a youth of the prisoner's respectable connections at the bar of a Criminal Court, to answer so serious a charge. The prisoner's father carried on an exten sive business in the silk trade. The prisoner was employed i❑ his father's establishment, and in the course of his occupation had frequently to go to the house of Messrs. Kopsch and Co., wholesale silk-dealers, in Broad-street, City—the firm whose signature the prisoner was charged with forging. Witnesses were then called, who proved that on the 26th of February the prisoner presented a cheque for 1001. at the banking-house of Glynn and Co., signed " A. J. Kopsch and C 0.," the signature of that firm, and that the cheque was a forgery. On the cross-examination of Mr. Kopsch, it was elicited by Mr. PHILLIPS that Marquis, a servant of the firm, had ab sconded a short time previous to the forgery, and had been ad vertised for as having committed a theft ; that Marquis had opportunities for obtaining access to the cheque books of the firm; and that he (Mr. Kopsch) had himself remarked that the writing of the signature " A. J. Kopsch and Co." to the cheque in question looked like Marquis's handwriting. Mr. Wanlys, clerk to the " Newspaper Press Benevolent Association,'' deposed that he saw the prisoner writing some thing at the counting-house of Kopsch and Co. on the evening of Feb. 24, but he could not see what the writing was. Some papers were produced, found on the prisoner when he was apprehended, on which the name of Kopsch appeared twice; and Mr. Kopsch said the writing of the name on these papers was like his signature, and like the signature on the forged cheque. Mr. C. PIIILLIPS addressed the Jury in a most able manner for the defence, contending that it was apparent the prisoner bad been the dupe of some other person ; that it was most likely Marquis had forged the cheque, and imposed upon the youth of the prisoner. Mr. Justice COLTNIAN then sumed up the evidence, leaving it to the Jury to say whether the prisoner himself forged the cheque, or uttered it, knowing it to have been forged ; and if there was any doubt on their minds as to either of these points, they would give the prisoner the benefit of it. The Jury found the prisoner guilty on the second count of the indictment, for uttering the cheque, knowing it to have been forged. Mr. Mills, of the firm of Glynn and Co., recommended the prisoner to mercy, on the ground of his tender years, and a conviction that it was his first offence. Mr. Justice COLTMAN said, on these grounds he should re commend that the severe sentence which must, for the sake of form, be passed on the prisoner, be commuted to a certain term of imprisonment. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Baron PARKE. ) TRIAL OF THOMAS WILLIAMS, ESQ., FOR FORGERY. (THIRD DAY.) Shortly after ten o'clock, Mr. Baron PARK entered the Court, and the Jury having answered to their names, the ex amination of witnesses for the prosecution was proceededwith. Mr. Joseph Netherclitie, lithographer to the British Mu seum, was then called, and stated that he was in the habit of examining fac similes. Paper No. 1, (the alleged will), was then handed to witne3s, and with the aid of a glass he suc ceeded in tracing disjointed portions of words in but no one entire word, with the exception of " ground." He was of opinion that these pencil marks were affixed to tho paper prior to the writing in ink. On paper No. 2, be traced also in pencilling, the words " Bishopsgate-street," " Cursi tor-street" " Castle," " Devonshire-street," and several disjointed words and figures. Thinks that these pencil marks were also made upon the paper before the writing in ink. His reason fur coming to this conclusion was, that the pencil ap peared to have been a bad one, for it is easier to rub out writ ing by a soft pencil than by a hard one, and with such a pencil as this, the ink could not have been written over by the pencil, or the grease of the pencil would have been observable over it. He was still further confirmed in this opinion, by the fact of the paper appearing to be much rubbed, and the ink not at all defaced. Nos. 4,5, and 8, were also placed in witnesses hands, and he traced upon them a number of letters and figures, but he was able to connect very few of them, so as to form words. _ _ William Christmas, one of clerks of the Bank of Eng land, produced a statement of the amount of stock standing in the name of Mr. Jones Panton, deceased, as follows:- 4,5241. 17s. 7d. Consolidated Three per Cents., dividends received up to January, 1838 ; 3,2141. 3s. 2d. Reduced Three and-a-Half per Cents., dividends received up to this month by power of attorney; 20,7221. Its. Id. Three-and-a- Half per Cents., formerly New Four per Cents., dividends not received from July, 1837, inclusive. John Grindley deposed that he was clerk to Mr. Ed ward Ramsey Williams. His employer conducted the pro ceedings in the case of John Roberts, a bankrupt. Knows John Williams, of Brynhras. Cannot tell whether he was in the service of the prisoner. Believes he is now dead. Re members a peculiarity of features which this man had. His front teeth projected very much, he went by a nickname on account of it. Remembers John Williams coming to his master's office in August last, to prove a debt upon the Commission. The debt amounted to 11. 11s. Bd. Witness took Williams before the Commissioners, where he proved his debt, but was not aisle to write his signature to the receipt, and therefore merely affixed his mark to it. The officer of the Bankruptcy Court produced the receipt by direction of the Learned Judge, and in reply to the Attor ney- General, The witness (Grindley) denied that he had altered the figures since Williams had signed it. He also denied that any charge had ever been brought against him. Richard Owen, parish clerk of Landree, deposed that he knew John Williams. Recollects his being in the service of the prisoner. Produces Williams' marriage certificate. Ho died about two years since—he believed in the month of October. Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GEMERAL—Does not know whether Williams could write or not. Robert Peters stated that he was present at the marriage of John Williams, to which he was a subscribing witness. Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Never saw Williams read or write. Saw his widow and son a few days since. __ .....__. John Hughes also knew the late John Williams. Has paid him money, and obtained receipts from him. Produced seve ral of these receipts, to all of which the mark of Williams was attached. Several other witnesses were produced, who deposed that Williams could not write. BOW-STREET.---(THIS DAY.) Charles Garfield, the publisher of the Bell's Weekly Mes. senger, was charged on suspicion, by Mr. John Brown Bell, proprietor of the same Journal, with embezzling the sum of 71. and other monies. A solicitor attended on the part of the prisoner. The complainant stated that the prisoner had been clerk and publisher in his establishment for several years, and from information he had received he believed he had been paid several sums of money by various persons, none of which had been accounted for in his cash-book. In order to make further inquiries, Mr. Bell requested the further hearing of the case would be postponed for a week. The prisoner made no observati on , an d was or d ere d to b e brought up again this day week. A few days ago the chimney of a house at Cham pagne, in the Am, caught fire, the sparks from which were carried by the wind to the thatched roof of another, which was soon in flames, and in less than two hours the conflagration spread with such violence that no fewer than eight houses and eleven barns were totally destroyed. The " Animals' Friend Society," last week caused John Saunders, Esq., a cheese-merchant of Tooley-street, to be fined 21., and his man, Robert Taylor, 10s. for dog fighting ; also, Richard Bush, to be fined by Messrs. Jeremy and Trail, for cruelty to a truck dog, and the cab-driver, 477, and Prince's Omnibus driver, 1,124, for cruelty to their horses ; also, Chancellor's Omnibus driver, 2,365, Blare's Omnibus driver, 368, and the Paddington Omnibus driver, 307, each to be heavily fined, by S:r John Key, for great cruelty to their horses—the poor animals having had severe wounds from the effects of the collar and the whip. COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday afternoon last, about two o'clock, an accident occurred at Farnworth, by which two workmen, Thomas Longworth and Joseph Law ton, were killed upon the spot. It appeared that Saturday being the pay day, the men had not returned to their work, and Lawton and Longworth went down to make some repairs. Whilst engaged in taking some bricks out of the wall, a large portion of it fell upon them. Longworth was precipitated to the bottom ; but Lawton remained in the tub in which they had been standing, covered with stones. They have both left families to regret their loss.—Belton Free Press. COURT CIRCULAR• Her Majesty held a Privy Council yesterday afternoon, at the New Palace. It was attended by the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Se cretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial .De partments. the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord Steward, and the Lord Chamberlain. At the Council a proclamation was issued, dispensing with the services to be performed in Westminster-hall, on the oc casion of her Majesty's Coronation. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Her Majesty held a Court, at which Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, had an audience of her Majesty, to take leave on going abroad for a short time. His Excellency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's principal. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Lansdowne and Viscount Melbourne. The Court was attended by Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Treasurer of the Household, and Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting. Viscount Falkland, and Mr. Rich, were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Sussex visited the Queen yesterday. The Queen inspected a proof of the engraving after Mr. Lane's first portrait of her Majesty (with the Riband and Order of the Garter), submitted by Mr. Finden. Viscount Melbourne and the Treasurer of the Household joined the Royal circle at dinner last evening, at the New Palace. _ _ The Princess Augusta removed yesterday from her residence in St. James's Palace to Clarence House, formerly the resi dence of the Queen Dowager. The Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, atMarlborough House- The Duke of Sussex visited the Duke and Duchess of Cam— bridge yesterday, at Cambridge House. The Queen Dowager and the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. The Queen's small bounty was distributed yesterday and on Monday, from an early hour in the morning till late in the evening, by Mr. Handby, at the Almonry-office, to 900 poor and aged men and women, who received ss. each. A deputation of the London Pawnbrokers, consisting, of Messrs. Attenborough, Neate, and Kelday, accompanied by Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M. P., had an interview with the Eight Hon. the President of the Board of Trade yesterday. Mr. Dennistoun and the Lord Provost of Glasgow had interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday,in Do wning-street- Lord Teynham, had an interview with Lord Glenelg yes terday at the Colonial-office. The Belgian Minister transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign Office. Mr. Sergeant Wilde had an interview with Viscount Mel bourne yesterday. Despatches from the Governors of the West India Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-Office. Viscount Howick left town yesterday, for the Hoo, Hert g ' on his way to Leamington. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl of Clonmeil, in Upper Brook-street, from 1, ! 5 seat in Oxfordshire ; the Duke of Marlborough, at Crawley 'S Hotel, Albemarle -street, from his seat, Blenheim ; La d y limes Hay, at ditto, from Scotland; Mr. and Lady Mary An ri Vaughan, at ditto, from Suffolk ; Count d'Aigle, in Hu' street, from the Continent ; the Earl Fitzwilliam, and th n Ladies Fitzwilliam, in Mortimer -street, from their seat in Yorkshire ; the Countess of Winterton, in Lodge-road, frn rn Sussex ; Mr. and Lady Augusta Fox, from Leamington Spa , Warwickshire; Lord and Lady D un d as , i n A r li ngton -street, from their seat, Ashe Hall, Y or k s hi re; th e 'Marquis °I Northampton, from Castle Ashby, his seat in Northampton shire ; the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, on Carlton Howe' terrace, from their seat in Ireland; the Earl of Charlemont, in Grosvenor -street, from his seat, Marino, Ireland ; the Mar" chioness of Bristol, in St. James's-square, from the south o! France ; Lord Skelmersdale, in Portland-place, from his seat in Lancashire ; Lady Teynham, from Leamington Spa, W ar ; g 1 1 wickshire ; Captain Reid, at the Weymouth Boardin.° us .; Weymouth-street, Portland-place, from Bengal ; Captro Deppe, at ditto ; J. P. Anderdon, Esq., and Mrs. and I ‘;„, Anderdon, at Everall's (late Gordon's) Hotel, Alivnn a n" o street, from their seat, Farley, near Reading ; Richard prim and family, at Long's Hotel, Bond-street, from Walbnert,°. House; Theodore Vernufft, Esq., at ditto, from Hamburg' at Major Graham, at ditto, from Brighton ; Col. Challoner, ditto, from Portnail Park; Hon. John Murray, at ditto, fo n ' Scotland ; Lord Elibank, at ditto, from ditto. DEPARTURES. The Earl of Cadogan, from the Terrace, Piccadilly , f ° l- , Crawley's Park Hotel, Norwood ; the Earl and Countess °f Brecknock, from Grosvenor -street, for the Wildern ess, visit to the Marquis Camden ; Lord Dillon, for Ox fords t heir Sir Charles and Lady Cockerell, from Piccadilly , Oxford seat, Seizencote, Gloucestershire ; Lord Vault, Lord r shire ; Lord and Lady Henley, for Brighton ; burst, from Fentan's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Gloucesteat shire; the Earl of Radnor, for Grosvenor-strect, for his: roin in Wiltshire ; William Portal, Esq., and Miss P ortal, a , Long's Hotel, Bond -street, for Laverstock House : Mrs. Stratton Marsham, from ditto, for Southampton; Moll Reynolds, Esq., from ditto, for Paris • Captain Williamso n, from ditto, for Brooklands Park, gouthampton ; Samtte , De e c r _ Worrall, Esq., from ditto, for Newmarket ; B. M. Carter , Esq., from ditto, for America ; the Champion Dymoke, froth ditto, for Scrivelsby Court ; John Harvey, Esq., as fr °lll Everall's (late Gordon's) Hotel, Albemarle-st re et, for Ctle Semple, Perthshire, N.B. ; James Harvey, Esq., from ditto! for ditto ; Augustus Murray, Esq., and Mrs. Murray and family, from ditto, for their seat, Artlebury House, Hcrtfor - shire ; Charles Hughes Hallett, Esq., and Mrs. Hallett, from ditto, for Esher; the Hon. A. Spencer, from the \Vey rn o ? UR Boarding-house, Weymouth -street, Portland-place ; Ju d g e May, and family, from ditto ; Captain Allen, from Captain Langly, from ditto, for Bath. ditto ; NATIONAL DEBT. (From Tuesday's Gazette.) The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury hav ing certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act 10th George I o c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual expenditure of the United Kiga s dom of Great Britain and Ir e l a nd exce ed e d the actual rere ntie thereof, for the year ended th e sth day o f January, 183 8, b ' ; the sum of 655,7601. ss. l; a The Commissioners for th e R e d uc ti o n o f the Nat.' n Debt herey ive notice, at no um wil be applied y hthe n' on account of g the Sinking that Fund s , under l the provisionsb of said Act, between the 6th day of April, 1838, and the btli day of July, 1838. S. HIGHAM, Controller. General. National Debt -office, April 6, 1838. Mr. PETER BORTHWICK.—We have been t° )u ; that Sir Robert Peel's object in getting rid of Mr- P et r e e 13orthwick was not to seat Lord M arcus Hill, but to proc,ner a vacancy, which Sir Geo rge Cl e rk, a mos t e ffi c ient Meni p so of the Tory party, might fill. Sir George it is said, 'c r, ready to start at a minute's notice for Evesham. P ete, ' however, would not all ow th e " p rox i ma t e P r i me Minig e r r a to play his game out ; but revenge d hi mse lf by a ll o wing 1 -I ° , Marcus Hill to ga in a ma j or ity o f one vo t e , an d then ab s ' ll d doned the scrutiny, th us l eav i ng t h e C omm i t t ee no o ption, g" obliging them to seat Lord Marcus Hill. RAILWAYS IN FRANCE.—The French C °111 :,:f mission, consisting o f e i g ht een M em b ers o f t h e Chambe r Deputies, have decid e d t h a t suc h un d erta ki ngs shall he cn_ 0 trusted not to the State, b u t t o p r i va t e Companies. I° th an h the Commission have co i nc id e d w i t h pu bli c opin i on, w hich tt leloudly expressed itself against th e monopo l y o f t h e State, a ble in favour of private i n d us t r y. I t i s t h erefore most probe .11 that the Companies alre a dy f orme d f or the pr i nc i pa l lines " l e , receive the Parliamentary sanction in the course of the Pr, sent Session. English capitalists have readily embarked , the Paris and Havre R a il way, an d now t h e i r atten tion lin l e attracted by the Paris an d B e l g i um R a il way. T the passes through important m anu f actur i ng di str i c t s , an" te d route is one of the most frequented. Persons well acquall t di with the trade and connections of the country affirm h° /30 that the result must prove superior e ven t o the expeeta ti° of the influential promoters of the undertaking. STARTING OF THE SIRIUS FOR N E W v o de d Early on Monday the road from Cork to Passage was crow erg with vehicles of every description, conveying pass d es , anxious to witness the departure of the first s t ea m-vessel w ag tined to cross the Atlantic. At ten o'clock the signal gun, rhe fired. The scene at this moment was most exciting• ace d shores at either side were crowded with spe c t a tors, who e v i an d their anxiety for the success of the undertaking by long at loud cheering as the vessel got under wei g h. The nrieb Rocklodge, the scat of Mr. J. Galway, fired a salute ,w a ati , was answered from the ships moored at P a ssage. The " e t he of the scene at this moment could not be surpassed, fro m At fineness of the day and the number of people assembled. he r a few minutes after ten o'clock the Sirius proceeded olla voyage, having on board 30 state cabin, 29 fore cabin, af elo t, steerage passengers, accompanied by the Ocean steam-P :0 i; which vessel proceeded to the harbour's m o uth, to bring the ir those ladies and gentlemen who remained on board to see eac h friends to sea. At parting the steam-packets salutedeeded other, and, after three hearty cheers, the Sirius pro s w ith on her voyage, and was soon lost sight of. We hal.nder pleasure the commencement of this bold and spirited u ro t taking. This species of communication will connect the continent of America closely with this country, from the i s a c ; lity it will afford of a safe and speedy transmission of r o a r ' the gers. Captain Roberts, the experienced commander ',via Sirius, calculates on making the voyage in twelve day s ! Sirius is the prope r ty o f th e St. George Steam-packet '-'an pany, and w as c h ar t ere d b y t h em t o th e British and ATe"ticc, Steam Navigation Company. It is intended to make more more voyages to America, until the British Queen, thowst'rork did new vessel, is ready. The Sirius will leave Ne • on the Ist of May.—Cork Reporter. t, i s to TILE FANQUI IN CHINA.--A work, title, which promises to be one of considerable interest, sans appear in the course of the ensuing week. ManY P f r the will no doubt be puzzled to understand the meanainf illocorn word " Fanqui." Those who have been to China applie d prebend it well enough, as they must have heard it wanderer to themselves. It literally signifies " barbarian considered but having been so long in use the epithet is insult, _ A wa y to be generally applied without intention to cu m therefore, be fairly translated " Foreigner.'' This ter Eurpeans, presses in China, not only the English, but all inha laitants .ot Americans, Parsees,l Arabs, Malays, and the the Celestial every other quarter of the globe excepting Empire. under this